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Oyl Spill
Andrew “Oyl” Miller is a creative director with 20 years of work spanning Nike, Wieden+Kennedy, MLB, IKEA, Amazon, and PlayStation, and an early AI director whose fully AI commercial aired on ESPN. He writes about creativity, sports, tech, and culture.
By Andrew "Oyl" Miller
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The Trolls Are Loud. The Opportunities Are Louder.
Everyone loves to have a polarizing take online, but binary thinking is leaving possibility on the table.
Jun 18•Andrew "Oyl" Miller
The Writer Who Walked Into the Machine and Lived to Tell the Story
No client. No budget. No brief. Just two creatives and a machine.
Jun 10•Andrew "Oyl" Miller
Rick Adelman Was My Basketball Coach For Two Weeks Every Summer
My personal remembrance of the legendary NBA coach from attending his basketball camp in the 1990s.
Jun 10•Andrew "Oyl" Miller
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Late Night Advice from Dan Wieden
Oct 31, 2022•Andrew "Oyl" Miller
My First AI-Directed Commercial Just Aired on ESPN
Mar 27•Andrew "Oyl" Miller
It's the End of the World As We Know It (And We Feel Nothing)
May 30, 2025•Andrew "Oyl" Miller
Chasing Frank Lloyd Wright's Desert Footprints at Taliesin West
Dec 15, 2023•Andrew "Oyl" Miller
How I Became an AI Film Director After 20 Years in Advertising
From Nike campaigns to uncanny valley experiments to an AI commercial on ESPN—how Veo, Luma, and pure obsession unlocked a new way to make films without…
Apr 4•Andrew "Oyl" Miller